Palestinian Fighters Survive Israeli Assassination Attempt In Gaza

Sunday February 14, 2010 02:25 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

A group of Palestinian fighters survived on Saturday at night an Israeli assassination attempt targeting them in Al-Zaitoun neighborhood, south east of Gaza City. Two residents were wounded in an explosion in the same area.

Local sources reported that Israeli occupation soldiers, stationed near the border fence with Gaza, fired a shell at a group of fighters in the Cars Market, east of Al-Zaitoun neighborhood. The fighters survived the attack unharmed.

Furthermore, two residents were wounded when their motorcycle exploded while they were riding it in Al-Zaitoun neighborhood. The causes of the explosion remained unknown until the time of this report.

The two suffered moderate-to-severe wounds and were moved to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

The Police in Gaza said that it is likely that the two residents are fighters who carried explosive materials, and that an official investigation was initiated.

Also on Saturday, the Egyptian security forces located and detonated a tunnel on its border with Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The tunnel was located in Al Brazil neighborhood in Rafah; the explosion caused damages to a number of Palestinian homes in the area, local sources reported.

Resistance fighters survive IOF shelling, 3 West Bankers detained

[ 14/02/2010 - 12:03 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired an artillery shell at a group of Palestinian resistance fighters east of Gaza city but its members survived unharmed.

Reliable sources reported that the IOF monitor moves of resistance fighters near to the border fence between Gaza Strip and Palestine occupied in 1948 and shoot to kill anyone approaching.

In the West Bank, IOF troops rounded up three Palestinians in Bethlehem and Jenin districts at dawn Sunday, the Hebrew radio reported.

It added that the "wanted" citizens were taken to the nearest interrogation centers.

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